This season is seeing the three promoted teams struggle more than any previous season I can remember since I started following football in 1998. Conversely, relegated Leicester are tearing the Championship apart.
With nearly all Premier League teams owned by foreign owners and the amount of revenue the league brings in, is the gulf in quality between the two divisions growing even more do you think?
I think so.
You can point to last season’s teams doing well though as a counter.
But my thought is that unless you have money I can’t see how any team can buy a PL player. If I think of my club Boro. We have no money, we rely on loan players heavily. If we go up the going rate for a prem league player is £30m+ now. We could not afford that no matter the increased revenue. We would go straight back down. We would need several seasons yo-yo-ing to have sustainable finances to buy the best of the championship outright and make a tilt at staying up.
A few years back you could go up, spend a total of around £30m on some smart buys and be within a fighting chance.